A first book in American history, with special reference to the lives and deeds of great Americans . ^. CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH. 25. CROSS-BAR SHOT, CLOSED AS PUT INTO A GUN AND OPEN AFTER FIRING. then talking a great deal about settling a colony in NorthAmerica, which was quite wild and almost wholly unex-plored. Nothing suited the wandering and daring Cap-tain Smith better. He joined the com-pany which set sail for America, in threelittle ships, in 1606. The largest of thesewas called the Susan Constant. I am sorry to say the people sent outin this first company were what we shouldcall nowadays a
A first book in American history, with special reference to the lives and deeds of great Americans . ^. CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH. 25. CROSS-BAR SHOT, CLOSED AS PUT INTO A GUN AND OPEN AFTER FIRING. then talking a great deal about settling a colony in NorthAmerica, which was quite wild and almost wholly unex-plored. Nothing suited the wandering and daring Cap-tain Smith better. He joined the com-pany which set sail for America, in threelittle ships, in 1606. The largest of thesewas called the Susan Constant. I am sorry to say the people sent outin this first company were what we shouldcall nowadays a hard set. They weremost of them men who knew nothingabout work. They had heard how theSpaniards grew rich from the gold andsilver in South America, and they expected to pick upgold without trouble. The colony was settled at a place called after the settlers landed the Indians attacked themwhile they were unarmed, and the settlers might all havebeen put to death with the bows and arrows and war clubsof the savages, if the people on one ofthe ships had not fired a cross-bar shot—such as you see in the pict
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